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Tara Stoinksi

With a career rooted in science, alumna Tara Stoinski is shaping the future of wildlife conservation and gorilla preservation. 

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Selected by DOE’s Office of Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation, Georgia Tech will lead the Critical Minerals in the Atlantic Seaboard Plain (CM-MAP) project. The regional effort builds on DOE’s Carbon Ore, Rare Earth, and Critical Minerals (CORE-CM) initiative and will examine potential resources across the Atlantic coastal plain.

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Georgia Tech researchers found that a widely used agricultural pesticide alters bumblebee gene expression, diminishing their ability to reproduce.

The School of Psychological and Brain Sciences is located in the J.S. Coon Building.

The College of Sciences is pleased to announce the renaming of the School of Psychology as the School of Psychological and Brain Sciences. The new name represents the breadth and impact of the School’s research and training mission at the intersection of mind, brain, behavior, and technology. 

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The 2026 cohort includes 28 early-career scientists based in the United States who are changing the world with their work. 

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This moon rock could help scientists interpret lunar data and explore how water may form on the moon.

Experts In The News

In an article published by The Conversation, Professor Joseph Montoya, Postdoctoral Fellow Xing Zhou, and their collaborator discuss sargassum blooms and their impact on the Caribbean and Gulf coasts and the coasts of the tropical Atlantic. According to their research, the vast mats of smelly, brown seaweed affecting these areas may have entered a "self-sustaining cycle, effectively feeding their own expansion."

The Conversation July 28, 2026

Researchers in the School of Physics, working with King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, have found that standard methods for identifying chirality in topological phases fail when applied to mixed quantum states. The study reveals that established diagnostics, including bulk-boundary correspondence and the modular commutator, are unreliable in these complex systems. Consequently, the research presents two new measures, based on relative entropy, to accurately diagnose chirality and determine the chiral central charge in decohered topological phases, indicating a need for a new set of tools when investigating mixed-state topology.

Quantum Zeitgeist July 16, 2026